Saturday, August 20, 2005

Mercy, mercy me...

If you didn’t read blogs or progressive media sites you would be very confused by the news today. It would seem odd to you that all the major news outlets were covering the discovery of a woman’s body…a woman that you really wouldn’t have been aware was missing.

No longer a missing mother without coverage, LaToyia Figueroa is now a victim with coverage nationwide.

Murder is front-page news, but the desperate search mounted by her family, friends and community wasn’t worth 15 minutes of airtime.

Why is that the white victims like that girl missing Aruba get all the attention and the women of color don't (unless they're dead, and only when people raise a stink about the lack of coverage). Sad, indeed.

A tragic as her death is -- as horrible as it is that her boyfriend (and father of the unborn child) is the one who did it -- at leas ther family can lay her to reast. At least there is closure.

It's more than a lot of families get.

What frosts my flakes is the lack of attention the case got over the last month. She wasn't white, blonde, blue-eyed and perky enough for the national news, I guess. Meanwhile, Greta Van Newswhore is coviering Natalee Holloway, 24/7. Hell, yeah -- I'm disgusted and fucking bitter.

I cried when I heard that. What can anyone do to help women get the hell away from men who don't mean them well. The "crisis" isn't so bad that we all have to take what we can get.

I'm just blown away by how ignorant Morgan is. Fox covered it over a month ago, and if they had, that should not have been the end of it. Natalee gets daily coverage. Why? Because her mother can afford to not work for 3 months and just live in Aruba? Laci got coverage out the ass, and LaToya was just as pretty. Ignorant people...

I'm so very pissed about the non-coverage of this story. Had they covered it sooner, could she have been saved? Probably not but neither could Laci Peterson or Natalee Holloway (yep I think she's dead).

LaToya was a beautiful pregnant woman who deserved the same type of coverage and it's fucking wrong that she didn't get it.